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CAR) BY FALSE PRETENCES (Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 2. When Thomas Henry Barry, contractor, aged 39, purchased a; motor car from Ernest Anthony at Greymouth ho intended, according to the story he told the police, to soli tho car at a profit and pay the money into tho hank in order to meet a, valueless cheque for £lO for which lie had tendered the owner. An accident. t-o tho car upset his plans, and bo “cleared out” to Wellington whore lie was arrested on a charge of false pretences and pleading guilty to the offence before Air Page, S.M., in tho Police Court, to-day ho was remanded for sentence to-mor X °Suh-Inspector Ward said that accused had been drinking, find after committing tho offence ho stowed away on a yossol travelling to Wellington. '
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11327, 3 October 1930, Page 5
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